Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
Whereas Europeans generally pronounce my name the right way ('Nick-louse Veert'), Americans invariably mangle it into 'Nickel's Worth.' This is to say that Europeans call me by name, but Americans call me by value.
Niklaus Wirth
Interfaces keep things tidy, but don't accelerate growth: Functions do.
Alan J. Perlis
One programmer can do in one day what two programmers can do in two.
Anonymous
There are only two hard problems in Computer Science: cache invalidation and naming things.
Phil Karlton
With all due respect John, I am the head of IT and I have it on good authority. If you type "Google" into Google, you can break the Internet.
Jen, "The IT Crowd"
... one of the main causes of the fall of the Roman Empire was that, lacking zero, they had no way to indicate successful termination of their C programs.
Robert Firth
It is the user who should parameterize procedures, not their creators.
Alan J. Perlis
Java. The elegant simplicity of C++. The blazing speed of Smalltalk.
Anonymous
Man is the best computer we can put aboard a spacecraft...and the only one that can be mass produced with unskilled labor.
Wernher von Braun
Compatibility means deliberately repeating other people's mistakes.
Anonymous